Prisons Weird Ways People Smuggle Things Into Prison

Every day, drugs and other contraband makes its way into jails around the world. Because of tightening security and advanced screening methods, inmates have become more creative in finding ways to smuggle in drugs, cell phones, and weapons past the prison guards. How people smuggle stuff into prison is often risky, often ingenious, and often entertaining.

Their schemes are sometimes gross and almost always dangerous - but as the evidence proves, desperate inmates will do just about anything to find ways to smuggle things into prison.

Tucking Coke in Foreskin

After being arrested on a drug charge, Antoine Banks was searched before he entered Louisville Metro Corrections. Prison officers patted him down and discovered a small bag of cocaine in his boxers. This led to a strip search where the officers found an even smaller bag lodged in the foreskin of his penis.

Grenade in a Vagina

After a grenade was detonated in a Colombian jail - killing five inmates and injuring 20 others - officials were shocked to learn how the explosive made its way into the prison.

The grenade was smuggled in by a woman who hid the explosive in her vagina. Since guards at the prison were not allowed to inspect the genitals of female visitors, the smuggler was able to bring the weapon inside without issue. She then removed it, passed it along to her inmate contact, and was able to leave without being caught.

Father and Son French Kiss

Photo: Federal Bureau of Prisons

When Donald Denney couldn't find a woman with a clean record to smuggle heroin into his son's prison, he saw no other choice: he'd have to hide the drugs in his anus and then discretely give it to his son via a French kiss.

This intricate plan was passed along from Denney to his incarcerated son, Donald Jr., over a police-monitored prison telephone. The scheme would involve Denney entering a Colorado federal prison, removing the golf ball sized baggie of heroin from his anus, putting it into his mouth, and then transferring the drugs to his son through a casual open mouth kiss.

When the elder Denney arrived at the prison, the FBI agents were waiting. During a strip search, the FBI agents discovered "a plastic wrapper protruding from Denney's anus." Denney was charged with possession of heroin with intent to distribute.